Capacity Counts: 25 Points of Peril & The High Cost of  Getting It Wrong

by Nicholas McGill | Dec 26, 2018 | Business, Business Model Design, Design, Design Thinking, Featured, Leadership, Management, Management Strategy, Operations, Performance, Productivity, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Strategy

Being unaware of your true effective capacity as an individual and as a company is deadly. If the leader of the company overestimates his capacity, he’ll flood his company with unrealistic expectations, fantasy projects, and vague goals that will cripple the...

What is a Growth Engine? 3 Key Features of Complex Business Systems That Actually Work

by Nicholas McGill | Nov 26, 2018 | Business, Business Model Design, Design, Featured, Management, Management Strategy, Operations, Performance, Productivity, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Strategy

Just what the heck is a growth engine anyway? Where do you find them? How are they different from marketing solutions you can buy off the shelf? What exactly does the term Growth Engine mean? In this post we’ll cover the gist, key components, to help you filter out...

The Heroik Hour Podcast 22: 4 Steps to Make Your Vision a Reality

by Nicholas McGill | Apr 17, 2017 | Featured, Inspiration, Performance, Podcast

Welcome to The Heroik Hour – the Podcast dedicated to getting you mission ready for life by giving you nuggets of wisdom around health, wealth, and work in the real world. If you’ve never heard this podcast before, we’re all about taking the deep dives into the...

The 3 Biggest Time Wasters at Work & How to Stop Them

by Nicholas McGill | Jul 26, 2015 | Performance, Productivity, Strategy

There is a lot of wasted time at work. There are 3 pink elephants in the room when it comes to wasted time at work. They’re email, meetings and distractions. They’re slowing you down and costing you a fortune of up to 40% of your work day, or 3.2 hrs per day per...